November 17th, 2017
For years now, the question of how to fully integrate the appropriate sharing of diagnostic images into healthcare data exchange—including into the phenomenon of health information exchange (HIE) has been a vexing one for healthcare IT leaders. Industry experts and observers agree: there’s got to be a better way than burning CDs and handing those to patients to hand to the next clinician down in the line in the chain of care delivery. And of course, the burning of CDs has been predicated on the shift nearly two decades ago now to digitized diagnostic images. Before that, healthcare was stuck in the world of physical films.
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featuring WhamTech CTO, Gavin Robertson.